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United Methodist Church’s shameful failure to divest from injustice
Many things in this conflict are counterproductive to peace, but divestment from Israel’s occupation is not one of them. (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, May 09, 2012   Group: Articles   
DAY 70: URGENT ACTION NEEDED FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS BILAL DIAB AND THAER HALAHLEH!
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right To Return Coalition calls on all people of conscience to take immediate action to try to save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners Bilal D...(Continue)
Date: Monday, May 07, 2012   Group: Articles   
The Case of Palestine Revisited
POWER VERSUS TRUTH - The Case of Palestine Revisited by Anis Hamadeh - April 14, 2012 A clearer conflict constellation can hardly be imagined: there are two societie...(Continue)
Date: Monday, May 07, 2012   Group: Articles   
Seminar entitled "The Palestinian Reconciliation, Where to?"
5-5-2012, the Middle East Center for Studies of the House of Wisdom Institute executed a seminar entitled "The Palestinian Reconciliation, Where to?"... the guest of the se...(Continue)
Date: Monday, May 07, 2012   Group: Articles   
Gaza: Long History of Wars and Defiance
By – Saeb Shaath Gaza is one of the world’s oldest living cities. It is a city held to be of major strategic importance. It was the only overland route between ...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, May 06, 2012   Group: Articles   
10 Reasons Why the Israel Lobby AIPAC is So Dangerous
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobby organizations in the country. AIPAC's clout helps fuel a never-ending cycle of violence ... (Continue)
Date: Saturday, May 05, 2012   Group: Articles   
ICC denying victims of ‘Israel’s’ war on Gaza justice
London (SaebPress) — Amnesty International accused the International Criminal Court (ICC) of “political bias” after it refused to investigate crimes carried ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2012   Group: Articles   
60 Minutes on the Plight of Palestinian Christians
Last night's 60 Minutes segment about the plight of Christians in the West Bank has gotten a lot of attention, in part because of the attempt by Israeli ambassador Michael Ore... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012   Group: Articles   
Abbas' letter to Netanyahu signals failure of peace process
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to write Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a letter to blame him for the stalled peace process, a move deemed by analysts as ... (Continue)
Date: Monday, April 09, 2012   Group: Articles   
Four Palestinians killed in besieged Gaza
Three Palestinian children were burnt to death in a fire started by a candle being used due to lack of electricity in the Gaza Strip, which has been under crippling Israeli bl... (Continue)
Date: Monday, April 02, 2012   Group: Articles   
Opinion: To see what UN will investigate, visit Hebron
The United Nations Human Rights Council finally decided last week to investigate Israeli settlements in Palestine. While a UN report can document what is happening in this inf... (Continue)
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012   Group: Articles   
Palestinians Denied Essentials to Life
Gaza’s hospitals, including al-Shifa (Gaza’s largest medical complex), “fac(e) severe difficulties in providing basis services….” As a result, t... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012   Group: Articles   
Hana Shalabi at risk of "imminent death"
Hana al-Shalabi is at risk of “imminent death” after more than a month on hunger strike against her violent, arbitrary detention by Israel has led to a serious det... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012   Group: Articles   
Hana Shalabi refuses to play by Israeli rules
By Daoud Kuttab Hana Shalabi has been on hunger strike for over a month. Her condition has been deteriorating so badly that prison officials had to transfer her to a Haifa ...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012   Group: Articles   
World Bank Warns Palestinian Fiscal Crisis to Deepen
Much of the growth stems from a construction boom produced by increased aid flows, the lifting of Israeli restrictions on the entry of some raw materials and increased imports... (Continue)
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012   Group: Articles   
Study: Israeli 'state land' illegally taken from West Bank
Israeli soldiers stand guard by Jewish settlers in a newly constructed illegal outpost on land owned by the Palestinian Haddar family near the village of Yatta, south of West ... (Continue)
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012   Group: Articles   
Rights Group says Targeted Killing a Crime
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights (EMOHR) Saturday stressed that the continued Israeli policy of what it called “assassination of wanted people” ...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012   Group: Articles   
Gaza: Long History of Wars and Defiance
by: Dr. Saeb Shaath   Gaza is one of the world’s oldest living cities. It is a city held to be of major strategic importance. It was the only overland route betwe...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, March 08, 2012   Group: Articles   
No evidence proving ‘Israel’ ever existed
By FRANCIS HUGHES The state of ‘Israel’ was conceived by the Zionist Lobby at the end of the 19th Century .Agreed by the British with the Balfour Declaration du...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, March 08, 2012   Group: Articles   
Khader Adnan: A selfless Palestinian hero
By Daoud Kuttab It might have been a small gesture, but it spoke volumes. After Khader Adnan, the Palestinian administrative detainee on his 66th day of hunger strike agr...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, February 26, 2012   Group: Articles   
Violence in Palestine and United States interferences
By J. Ali Hassan, Feb 25, 2012 There is a vast difference between what been told or shown in media and “what is really going on”. United States prevented peace ...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, February 25, 2012   Group: Articles   
U.S. Pro-Israel Vetoes
Vetoes: 1972-1982 Subject Date...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012   Group: Articles   
The brutal reality of post-strike Israel
No one could have done a better job of describing the mysterious agreement between the Finance Ministry and the Histadrut labor federation over the general strike than Finance...(Continue)
Date: Monday, February 13, 2012   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Anti-Semitism and Israel's inherent contradictions
By Ramzy Baroud In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as 'anti-Semitic'. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writ...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, February 05, 2012   Group: Articles   
Israel's greatest intelligence challenge is Netanyahu
This week U.S. President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in no uncertain diplomatic terms that he ought not dare to attack Iran. The goal, said Obama...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, January 29, 2012   Group: Articles   
Israel fears 'Internet terror'
By Allyn Fisher-Ilan JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Israeli officials said on Friday they were concerned the country may be under cyber attack after a wave of credit card code th...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, January 07, 2012   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Three years after the war on Gaza
By Daoud Kuttab Three years ago the Israeli army initiated a major military offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip with the aim of stopping the shelling from Gaza...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, January 03, 2012   Group: Articles   
Inspirations from Palestine in 2011
By Ramzy Baroud Mustafa Tamimi was a 28-year-old resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. His meticulously trimmed beard served as the centerpiece of his handsome f...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, January 01, 2012   Group: Articles   
Will Jerusalem cause a third Intifada?
By Daoud Kuttab This may be a journalistic hunch, but I have a feeling that we are about to witness an explosion in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this time again ov...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, December 25, 2011   Group: Articles   
What’s daily life like for Palestinians in Israeli prisons?
by Linda Gradstein OFER, West Bank (JTA)—When Israel released 550 Palestinian prisoners last Sunday in the second phase of the Gilad Shalit exchange deal, the freed me...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, December 24, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Behind the mask
By Ramzy Baroud Essam al-Batsh and his nephew, Sobhi al-Batsh, are the latest in a long line of reported Palestinian "militants" killed by Israel. The civilians were ...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, December 18, 2011   Group: Articles   
In Israel, the life of a Palestinian is cheap
The pictures from Friday's events in Nabi Saleh are hard to swallow: An Israel Defense Forces soldier opens the back door of an armored military jeep and, from a distance of j...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011   Group: Articles   
The Arab Awakening and Israel
Israel is facing the biggest erosion of its strategic environment since its founding. It is alienated from its longtime ally Turkey. Its archenemy Iran is suspected of develop...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011   Group: Articles   
Ali, released after 23 years in Israeli jails: “I have to learn life"
Israel locks up Palestinian political prisoners with Israeli citizenship, including Ameer Makhoul, in Gilboa jail. On 18 October, two fellow prisoners of Ameer were released i...(Continue)
Date: Monday, November 28, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel moving towards 'dictatorship'
BENJAMIN Netanyahu's right-wing coalition has this week been accused of trying to turn Israel into a ''dictatorship'' after it introduced legislation to ''tame'' judges and hu...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israeli Military Law Violates the Rights of Palestinian Children
JURIST Guest Columnist Jason Hart, Lecturer at the University of Bath, argues that the Israeli military legal system discriminates against Palestinian children, often subjecti...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2011   Group: Articles   
Barghouti's fate now firmly in Israel's hands
By Tom Perry RAMALLAH (Reuters) -- Left out of a prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel, the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti must now wait for a different type of dea...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, October 15, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: UN bid teaches us about America
By Sam Bahour The case of Palestine's bid for UN membership is teaching us more about the United States than it is about the stubborn Middle East. Sadly, the United...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: US elections and pandering to Israel
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) - So much for charges from conservative contenders for the 2012 US presidential elections that Barack Obama is not pro-Israel enough...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2011   Group: Articles   
Zionist Policies Towards Israeli Arabs
Israel can claim to be a full democracy only so long as it treats its Arab minority fairly. While the economic gap between Israeli Arabs and Jews remains large, the ruling coa...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Palestine's state of mind
By Daoud Kuttab The idea of Palestine becoming a permanent member of the United Nations originated, say Palestinians, with none other than US President Barack Obama. ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Taking on Turkey; Israel’s dangerous game
By Ramzy Baroud The UN Palmer Report, which largely exonerated Israel for murdering nine unarmed Turkish civilians in international waters on May 31, 2010, seemed in some...(Continue)
Date: Monday, September 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel faces its most complex diplomatic challenges in decades
The cabinet ministers' diagnosis last week that Israel is facing its most complex strategic situation in decades is turning out to be correct. Even before the focus shifts to ...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Arab Spring reaches Israeli embassy in Cairo
By Rashid Shahin Seven months after toppling the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian protesters broke into the Israeli embassy in Cairo, tore down the Israeli flag and dest...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Arab Spring reaches Israeli embassy in Cairo
By Rashid Shahin Seven months after toppling the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian protesters broke into the Israeli embassy in Cairo, tore down the Israeli flag and dest...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011   Group: Articles   
Why does US oppose Palestinian UN bid?
The US is using all its powers and tools to drop Palestine's application to the UN General Assembly for full membership status in September 22. From the beginning, the US p...(Continue)
Date: Monday, September 12, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel facing 'diplomatic tsunami' with Arab neighbors
JERUSALEM -- The attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo has brought into sharp relief Israel's increasing isolation in a still region grappling with the changes of the so-call...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2011   Group: Articles   
The end of Turkey-Israel relations
By Steven A. Cook, CFR.org Last Friday, the Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, announced what had long been coming - the end of Turkey-Israel relations. Although ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, September 07, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel Isolates Itself
By ROGER COHEN LONDON — Here’s what the United Nations report on Israel’s raid last year on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara had to say about the killing ...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, September 06, 2011   Group: Articles   
Arab Spring Leading to Israel’s Fall?
he so-called Arab Spring claimed its first Israeli casualties on August 18. A “terror squad” coordinated attacks on two buses and two cars, as well as Israeli troo...(Continue)
Date: Monday, September 05, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel must offer compensation to Turkey
As expected, the Palmer Report, issued by the UN investigative committee, over last year's confrontation between Israeli naval commandos and activists onboard Turkish ship the...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, September 04, 2011   Group: Articles   
Does the Palestinian UN bid threaten refugee rights?
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- As the leadership in Ramallah prepares to approach the UN for membership in September, it is also fighting back charges that its initiative is shortsighte...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, September 03, 2011   Group: Articles   
Giving Gaza hope
By Sami Abdel-Shafi — Guardian News & Media Ltd It is no longer fitting to wonder whether Gaza is a problem: of course it is, and will continue to be for as long as...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel’s ‘nice little war’: Gaza, Egypt in the range of fire
By Ramzy Baroud Israeli writer Uri Avnery recently wrote an article entitled ‘How Godly Are Thy Tents?,’ which began with the words, “First of all, a wa...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, August 27, 2011   Group: Articles   
US pays for Zionist-oriented policies
Renowned political thinker, Morgenthau and others agree that a number of internal factors like population, system of government, geographical location, economic out etc. play ...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, August 04, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israeli courts must end anti-Arab discrimination
Israeli courts discriminate against Israeli Arabs. If there had been any doubt left about this, a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind study commissioned by Israel's Courts Admini...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, August 04, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: When did the blockade begin?
By Mya Guarnieri ATHENS, Greece (Ma'an) -- The flotilla was intended to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, a closure that has been decried as a violation o...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, August 02, 2011   Group: Articles   
Why Netanyahu is suddenly unpopular in Israel
By Joshua Mitnick Tel Aviv Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been put firmly on the defensive for the first time since his election, with tens of thousands of ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel's government is a grave threat to democracy
Anyone who was present at the demonstration of the tens of thousands of people roaring "Bibi go home" on Saturday should understand the intensity of the threat against the pre...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011   Group: Articles   
Mossad Was Behind 2011 Oslo Attacks
By Saman Mohammadi "By way of deception, thou shall do war." Last night, I posted a quote by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen who says that Israel's Mossad wa...(Continue)
Date: Monday, July 25, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel should apologize to the Turkish people
In three days, if there are no more delays, the UN panel investigating the events surrounding last year's Gaza flotilla will release its report. It seems that everyone is sick...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, July 24, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: An urgent need for intervention
By Ghassan Khatib Palestinian politicians and analysts were divided in their understanding and evaluation of last week's Quartet failure to agree on a statement promoting t...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, July 23, 2011   Group: Articles   
More evidence of Israeli racism
Gulf News No one should be surprised by the Israeli Knesset's decision to suspend Palestinian Member of Parliament Haneen Zoabi due to her participation in last year's bloo...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011   Group: Articles   
How Long do we Allow Israel to Attack Children?
Opinion by Tim King Salem-News.com We learned last week from our sources in Israel, that the Murder case involving little Abir Aramin, an 8-year old girl shot by Israeli so...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Next Israeli-Lebanese war looms large
By Dr. Joseph A. Kechichian, Special to Gulf News Israel is preparing for its fifth war against Lebanon, as it believes that Beirut is not entitled to offshore natural ga...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011   Group: Articles   
Root Causes Behind the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
The Arab-Israeli conflict is typically viewed as a political and territorial conflict, yet the religious component fuels the conflict and makes it extremely difficult to resol...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel, Palestine and Middle East peace
ARLINGTON, Va., July 11, 2011 – What kind of efforts and attitudes will help improve chances for peace in the world? There are many good statesmen, economists, diplomats...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011   Group: Articles   
A new state of affairs as UN nears a vote on Palestine
On Saturday, the world welcomed a new country into the community of nations. South Sudan has achieved independence from the northern half of the country, as Sudan itself did i...(Continue)
Date: Monday, July 11, 2011   Group: Articles   
Anti-Zionism growing among Jews
A large group of Jewish activists opposed to the Zionist ideology are challenging Israel's occupation, racist and colonial policies against Palestinians and calling for the re...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, July 09, 2011   Group: Articles   
Washington appears to have OK'd attack on unarmed flotilla
The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — including a vessel w...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, July 07, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel's body transfer debacle likely to damage Palestinian trust
Confused handling by the Prime Minister's Office, the defense minister's office and the Israel Defense Forces over Israel's proposed transfer of the bodies of Palestinian has ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, July 06, 2011   Group: Articles   
End the Israeli Occupation of Greece
(ATHENS) - On June 2, 2010, the Greek government sent one of its C-130 transport aircraft to bring thirty-one of its citizens from Tel Aviv back to Greece. It also carried thr...(Continue)
Date: Monday, July 04, 2011   Group: Articles   
US: Israel not doing enough to fight human trafficking
Israel is not fully complying with the minimal standards to eliminate human trafficking, but is making considerable efforts to do so, according to the US State Department&rsqu...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, July 03, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: The Palestinian third way
By Daoud Kuttab The Palestinian leadership is more committed than ever to obtaining statehood through the United Nations General Assembly. But despite this commitment, th...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, July 02, 2011   Group: Articles   
Gaza flotilla: Looking at both sides of the story
The organizers of a flotilla seeking to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip have been delayed from departing because of a mounting campaign by Israeli of...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011   Group: Articles   
Obama should condemn Israeli naval blockade
By Ann Wright This week, some 40 American citizens, including myself, will peacefully attempt to break Israel's illegal naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The flotilla tha...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011   Group: Articles   
Violating Palestinian Rights
by Stephen Lendman Besides its Knesset, security forces and intelligence services, Israel's High Court and Civil Administration ravage Palestinian civil society repressiv...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Of course the flotilla is a provocation
By Joe Catron As the launch of the Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human approaches, increasing numbers of Zionist officials and commentators illuminate the depths of their...(Continue)
Date: Monday, June 27, 2011   Group: Articles   
Why is Israel conducting unprecedented drills?
Israel continues to implement a plan set up in 2004 by Ariel Sharon, to change the Israeli army from huge and heavily armed to a smaller and smarter one. Sharon had learned...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011   Group: Articles   
In Gaza, gnawing problems persist amid construction boom
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two luxury hotels are opening in Gaza this month. Thousands of new cars are on the roads. A second shopping mall — with escalators from Isr...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Our struggle is for rights not political solutions
By Maath Musleh The Palestinians have suffered violations of their basic human rights since 1948. The core of the Palestinian – Zionist conflict was the expulsion...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011   Group: Articles   
Waves of attacks against West Bank mosques
Ali Badwan In recent months, there have been repeated attacks by Israeli settlers against mosques across the West Bank. They were carried out with the complicity o...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, June 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel plans to forcibly transfer 40,000 Bedouin citizens
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, The Electronic Intifada, Jun 17, 2011 A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planne...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011   Group: Articles   
June 5 rallies will set the stage for return
By Joe Catron I gasped as the first bullet struck a young man standing a few paces ahead of me. I watched him crumple to the ground on May 15, when Palestinians mark Nakb...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel must not ignore the Arab Spring
Three civil wars are going on in the Middle East - in Libya, Syria and Yemen. The Iraqi government is on the brink of dissolution, while Egypt is wavering between a military a...(Continue)
Date: Monday, June 13, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Europe's move
By Tom Moerenhout The game of diplomacy has come at full speed. The 1967 borders and the recognition of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations in September are ...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, June 12, 2011   Group: Articles   
The Israeli right’s myth of success
By Michael Stephens/Doha Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home a hero after emerging from a bruising encounter with American President Barak Obama. Having...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, June 01, 2011   Group: Articles   
The Israeli Military's Unforgivable Abuse of Women
Opinion by Tim King Salem-News.com It's almost three o'clock in the morning. I finally stop publishing news and sit down to watch a video about the way Israeli soldiers have ...(Continue)
Date: Monday, May 30, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Revolution at the Rafah border
By Ramzy Baroud The Palestinian security officer at the Rafah border was overly polite. He wore a black uniform and walked around self-assuredly, as he instructed weary tra...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, May 29, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: 29 years of nonviolent resistance to occupation
By Mya Guarnieri "Here comes your nonviolent resistance," The Economist proclaimed in an article two days after the events of Nakba Day. The writer pointed out that t...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011   Group: Articles   
Editorial: Obama to the dustbin of history
By Nasser Lahham The American president has not yet realized that he is not up to the question of Palestine or the status of Jerusalem, but his speech to the American-Isr...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011   Group: Articles   
For Palestinians, Every Day is Nakba Day
As the month began, Israel marked Yom HaShoah, the annual day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. At the sounding of air-raid sirens, the nation shut down and sto...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Obama has adopted Israel's demands
By Rashid Shahin In an attempt to tickle the emotions of the Arab masses, for the second time in less than two years, President Obama addressed the Arabs by speaking abou...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2011   Group: Articles   
Demonstrations in the Arab World: Reason for Introspection
By Jamil Toubbeh As the sand settles on few demonstrations in the Arab world, Arab leaders and political analysts are busily assessing their long-term impact on Arab socie...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel's offensive to derail Palestinian statehood
By Mikail Jubran A concerted united front of mainstream American pro-Zionist, Jewish and pro-Israeli organizations has begun to assert itself in an all-out campaign to ...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011   Group: Articles   
Nakba protests: Warning to Israel
By JONATHAN COOK They are extraordinary scenes.  Film shot on mobile phones captured the moment on May 15 when at least 1,000 Palestinian refugees marched across no-ma...(Continue)
Date: Friday, May 20, 2011   Group: Articles   
Did the Israeli army have the right to shoot?
Al Jazeera examines the legality of Israel's use of force on its northern frontier against mass "Nakba" marchers. On Sunday, Israel's disputed northern frontier saw the first...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Palestine's Hidden History of Nonviolence
Last weekend, as tens of thousands of unarmed refugees marched toward Israel from all sides in a symbolic effort to reclaim their right of return, the world suddenly discovere...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: The Nakba continues
By Rashid Shahin Nakba, in Arabic, simply means "catastrophe" or "tragedy." For Palestinians, it is the most tragic nightmare to happen to a whole nation in modern his...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011   Group: Articles   
News Analysis: "Nakba" incidents along Israeli borders indicate further resistance
by Adam Gonn Xinhua -- Sunday's Palestinian commemoration of "Nakba," when deadly clashes broke out at Israel' s borders with Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, is a...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011   Group: Articles   
The Arab Revolution is knocking at Israel's door
The Arab revolution knocked on Israel's door yesterday, in Nakba Day demonstrations carried out by Palestinians from Syria and Lebanon in Majdal Shams and in Marour al-Ras. Th...(Continue)
Date: Monday, May 16, 2011   Group: Articles   
Which is more evil, al-Qaeda or Israel?
This is more than a legitimate question because it is unfair and immoral to keep silent about the indisputably greater evil, e.g. Israel, while demonizing the supposedly lesse...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel has to choose: Mideast peace or apartheid
Having all Palestinian political factions come together for national reconciliation was an emotional experience for all Palestinians who witnessed the events taking place in C...(Continue)
Date: Friday, May 13, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel braces for 'Nakba Day'
Independence Day over, 'Nakba Day' looming: Israel's defense establishment is preparing for a possibly turbulent weekend as Palestinians mark what they view as the disaster in...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel's blockade of Gaza is cracking
Egypt has announced that it will open its border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis, thereby reversing Egypt's collusion with Israel's blockade regime. The interim Foreig...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011   Group: Articles   
Palestinian unity and the new Middle East
By Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response to the Hamas-Fatah deal in Cairo was both swift and predictable. "The Palestinian Authority must ch...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, May 08, 2011   Group: Articles   
The real challenge of Palestinian unity
By Michael Broning After four years of internal schism, Palestinians have agreed on forming a united government backed by the rivaling factions of Hamas and Fatah. The i...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, May 05, 2011   Group: Articles   
Bracing for Nakba Day in Israel and Palestine
Palestine Monitor As the Israeli military has announced it will increase troop deployment in the Occupied West Bank for the approaching Nakba Day, Palestinian schools and c...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, May 03, 2011   Group: Articles   
One word: Bravo
By Uri Avnery In one word: Bravo! The news about the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas is good for peace. If the final difficulties are ironed out and a...(Continue)
Date: Monday, May 02, 2011   Group: Articles   
Palestinian identity under attack in Israel
By Mya Guarnieri Earlier in April, the Israeli Ministry of Education decided to add a question about the Holocaust to the matriculation exam of Arab students. Because...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011   Group: Articles   
Will Palestine be born this fall?
By Daoud Kuttab The chances for the birth of a Palestinian state this fall appear to be 50-50. The world community, including the US, seems to favor the idea, but there is cl...(Continue)
Date: Friday, April 29, 2011   Group: Articles   
Palestinians put faith in nation's resurrection
By Ghassan Khatib As worshipers and tourists from all over the world come to Jerusalem this Easter, spare a few moments to think about those Christians who will not be al...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel's Sudan Attack and Arms Smuggling
By Steve Emerson Sudan claims that Israel was behind an April 5 missile strike on a car in Port Sudan that killed a top Hamas terror operative. Two men were incinerated in...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011   Group: Articles   
US weapons to Israel deter peace
By Josh Ruebner Israel may be forgiven for failing to realize the current fiscal woes of the United States. After all, US military aid to Israel not only sailed unscathed...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011   Group: Articles   
A New Nakba?
By MYA GUARNIERI Several weeks ago, Israeli authorities arrested M, a pregnant woman, along with her three-year-old, Israeli-born son. The young family—sans the...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011   Group: Articles   
A crime against Palestine
By Wissam Abu Zeid The last thing a supporter of the Palestinian cause expects is to be kidnapped and killed in an atrocious way by a “ Palestinian group.” Vi...(Continue)
Date: Friday, April 22, 2011   Group: Articles   
Netanyahu's plan: A new spin to an old dance?
By Mikail Jubran Over the past few months it has become disturbingly clear that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has neither a clear vision for Israel's future n...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2011   Group: Articles   
Reflections on the death of Vittorio Arrigoni
By Eva Bartlett This is how Vittorio "Vik" Arrigoni always signed off in his emails. The 36-year-old Italian, my colleague and inspiring friend, was murdered Friday by a...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Statement by members of UN mission on Gaza war
In recent days some articles and comments appearing in the press with respect to the report of the United Nations (UN) fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2008-2009 h...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel's uneven justice
By Mya Guarnieri Last week, Israeli immigration police arrested and deported a three-year-old boy, born and raised in Israel. The toddler was detained and expelled t...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011   Group: Articles   
Factbox: Crime among Israel's political elite
(Reuters) - Israel's attorney general told Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday that he faced indictment for fraud, money laundering and witness-tampering, charges ...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel, Palestine: Settler Colonialism and Self-determination
By Brian Durrans – London The seventh annual conference of the very active SOAS Palestine Society attracted some 300 people over the weekend of 5-6 March 2011 (SOAS ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011   Group: Articles   
Village remains under siege weeks after settlement murders
Awarta is a poor, sprawling village in the northern occupied West Bank. Surrounded by land that is now a vivid green from the winter rains, trails of cactus plants grow betwee...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011   Group: Articles   
Goldstone effect
The Israeli pummeling of Gaza which has so far killed 18 people should not be seen as mere coincidence. The astonishing turnaround of Richard Goldstone must be factorized. Gol...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011   Group: Articles   
Palestinians deserve justice
By Nabil Sha'ath Judge Goldstone stunned the world with his op-ed in The Washington Post on April Fool’s Day (“Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and ...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, April 09, 2011   Group: Articles   
Goldstone or Post
By: Curtis F.J. Doebbler It is unfortunate that Goldstone, after producing a very fair report with two colleagues, has digressed into issuing statements based on false and ...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, April 07, 2011   Group: Articles   
Heading toward an Israeli apartheid state
By Daniel Blatman It has been 60 years since the apartheid state was established in South Africa. In March 1951, a few years after the racist National Party came to power...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, April 05, 2011   Group: Articles   
What does Goldstone know now?
By Abdul-Hakim Salah Retired justice Richard Goldstone started his opinion piece published Friday on the Washington Post by saying, "We know a lot more today about what h...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, April 05, 2011   Group: Articles   
Palestinians on the brink
By Mikail Jubran In recent weeks we have witnessed a somewhat stall of the Arab spring. An ongoing civil conflict that is raging in Libya pits the 'ancien regime' against...(Continue)
Date: Monday, April 04, 2011   Group: Articles   
An Israeli apology is in order
By Suhail Khalilieh The Palestinians have been struggling for their rights and independence for more than 60 years with honor and pride. While Palestinians recall their o...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011   Group: Articles   
Killings in Itamar not acceptable
By Daoud Kuttab The brutal and inhumane killings of the Fogel family in Itamar is unacceptable and indefensible. No matter what anyone might say about the illegality of Je...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Gaza after the revolution
For the U.S. government and media, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been treated as a stepchild of sorts to the revolutionary events sweeping the Middle East. This was cla...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011   Group: Articles   
What about Israel's savage actions?
By Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet announced the addition of several hundred units to four major colony blocks...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011   Group: Articles   
Editorial: A hasty response
By Nasser Lahham The Israeli media response to the murder of five Israeli settlers in Itamar was hasty, reflecting confusion and a failure to adequately understand the sit...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011   Group: Articles   
PA recalibrating its strategy
By Daoud Kuttab For the first time in many months, Palestinian spokesmen appear to be rethinking their political strategy towards liberation and independence. It is not ...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israeli Apartheid Week unfairly criticizes Israel
By Noah Glyn March is a great month because it has a little something for everyone. Sports lovers have spring training and March Madness. The Irish have St. Patrick's Day. Co...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, March 03, 2011   Group: Articles   
Will the Palestinians keep silent?
By Alaa Tartir The Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains the heart of the persistent crisis in the Middle East. But within the persistent revolutionary wave, new questions o...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, March 02, 2011   Group: Articles   
AIPAC Vetos UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements
By Philip Giraldi Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest Last Friday’s American veto of the United Nations Security Council resolution that wo...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, March 01, 2011   Group: Articles   
Settlements: US veto
By MUHAMMED, ALKHOBAR When the United States of America had a chance to show the world that it supported justice and freedom for the Palestinians, it failed spectacularly!...(Continue)
Date: Monday, February 28, 2011   Group: Articles   
US veto no way to peace talks
On Friday February 18, the U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to condemn illegal Israeli settlements’ construction in the occupied Palestinian territory. T...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011   Group: Articles   
Why is the Netanyahu government silent and paralyzed?
Prime Ministers' Offices are almost always saturated with power struggles, intrigue and disputes. The prime minister's advisers and aides' desires and ego tend to soar at thei...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011   Group: Articles   
Is the West Bank next?
If Binyamin Netanyahu's govenment, and its lobby in Washington, were rational they would be rushing to plan Israel's evacuation from the occupied territories, and encoura...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011   Group: Articles   
Abbas and Fayyad should resign too
After two decades of failed political moves, the Palestinian Authority represented by its top leadership is hoping to avoid the inevitable: paying a heavy price for corruption...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011   Group: Articles   
From An Israeli Prison to Tahrir Squar
As pro-democracy demonstrations sweep across the Middle East, ousting dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, many in the West have expressed surprise that such a strong, sophisticate...(Continue)
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011   Group: Articles   
How Israel Misses Mubarak
(IPS) - As Israel's public television aired live pictures of crowds of elated Egyptians celebrating the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, the anchor suddenly had a telling t...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011   Group: Articles   
Rawabi implicates PA in Zionist project
As the Convener of the Fatah Revolutionary Council Committee on Resistance to the Settlements, the Apartheid Wall and the Ethnic Cleansing it is my responsibility to ensure th...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011   Group: Articles   
Is Israel losing ground in UN?
NEW YORK - Diplomats at the United Nations were harshly critical yesterday of Israel's ongoing failure to appoint a permanent ambassador to the UN, saying it has essentially f...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2011   Group: Articles   
Why Israel is worried
An Israeli observer describes the mood of this country's leadership as it watches the crisis in Egypt: "It varies," he said, "from gloom to doom." The protesters demanding th...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, February 08, 2011   Group: Articles   
Palestine is the key to Arab democracy
Current events in Egypt and Tunisia have the entire region and beyond glued to their television sets. The all-too-spoken-about Arab street has risen, seemingly from the dead. ...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, February 08, 2011   Group: Articles   
Revolt in Egypt, impact on Israel
An earthquake of epoch-making dimensions is changing the landscape of our region. People are afraid of change. Israelis are no exception. While in neighboring Egypt earth-shat...(Continue)
Date: Monday, February 07, 2011   Group: Articles   
The death of Israeli democracy
As Egyptians demand their freedom, I ask a Muslim in Jaffa if we will see the same in Israel. "I don't think so," he answers. "Even with all the mess here, we have democracy."...(Continue)
Date: Monday, February 07, 2011   Group: Articles   
Crisis in Egypt Tests U.S. Ties With Israel
The demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak’s government in Egypt are rocking the relationship between the United States and its most important Arab ally. But the...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, February 05, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israeli Fears Over Regime Change In Egypt
Many Israelis have been gripped by TV footage of the unfolding democratic revolution in Cairo - they fear, quite simply, a change of regime in Egypt could endanger the Jewish ...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, February 05, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel's human rights abuses in the name of security
"Israeli security" is the sacred cow of the Israeli street and ruling establishment. Practically all the manifestations of Israeli racism directed at the state's Palestinian c...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, February 01, 2011   Group: Articles   
Egypt's uprising and its implications for Palestine
If the Mubarak regime falls, and is replaced by one less tied to Israel and the United States, Israel will be a big loser. As Aluf Benn commented in the Israeli daily Haaretz,...(Continue)
Date: Monday, January 31, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel concerned if Mubarak should fall
From Egypt to Jordan and Algeria to Yemen, Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" has begun to undermine Arab regimes that have for decades maintained their control through fear, anal...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israelis fear unwinding of political stability
The recent wave of political protest that has swept Arab countries such as Tunisia and Egypt is also stirring concern in the one regional power that looks completely immune to...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011   Group: Articles   
Leaks Reveal Deeper Palestinian-Israeli Security Ties
Leaked documents published Tuesday show extensive collaboration between Palestinian security forces and their Israeli counterparts, a relationship Israeli commanders say has b...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011   Group: Articles   
Analysis: Israel sees threat from "delegitimisers"
(Reuters) - Foreign protests, boycotts, embargoes and sanctions, along with internal resistance, helped bring about the isolation and eventually the end of apartheid in South ...(Continue)
Date: Monday, January 24, 2011   Group: Articles   
Palestinians wait for answers on Israeli war in Gaza
After two years, a UN-commissioned report accusing Israel of widespread violations of international law and possible war crimes, and the opening of 52 separate military police...(Continue)
Date: Monday, January 24, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel: The ugly truth
There was that jarring week in December - a protest against Arab-Jewish couples, a south Tel Aviv march and demonstration against migrant workers and African asylum seekers, t...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, January 23, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel may be on the eve of revolution
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday characterized the popular revolution in Tunisia as an example of "instability in our region." While Western leaders (and the Arab L...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011   Group: Articles   
Netanyahu under fire from Israeli left And right
A heated debate is under way in Israel over issues of racism, freedom of expression and dissent. And Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing criticism from all si...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011   Group: Articles   
Displacement risk for Palestinians in East Jerusalem
UN agencies and EU officials in the occupied Palestinian territory are calling for the implementation of international humanitarian law to protect the Palestinian population i...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel's Democracy in Jeopardy
A slew of anti-democratic legislation due to be voted on by the Israeli parliament in the coming months will undermine the country’s democratic values and human rights,&...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011   Group: Articles   
New Jerusalem settlement hits peace process
Israel is moving ahead with a project to build 1,400 new homes in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, a development that critics claim will deliver a death knell to the already...(Continue)
Date: Monday, January 17, 2011   Group: Articles   
The day after Zionism - Hannah Mermelstein
As we trudge through the terraced land, ducking under branches of olive trees and trying to avoid prickly bushes, I think about landscape, consciousness, and memory. We ar...(Continue)
Date: Monday, January 17, 2011   Group: Articles   
Israel diplomacy 'held hostage' by ministry strike
Israeli diplomacy, which is already engaged in an uphill battle to defend the Jewish state from international criticism, is facing a new threat: a strike by diplomats who say ...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011   Group: Articles   
Hamas and women: Clearing misconceptions
Women in every society have a different perception of their respective roles, which are generally molded by social and cultural norms. Evidently in many parts of the world, th...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011   Group: Articles   
ISRAEL: Poor diplomacy strikes foreign relations
Israel's foreign relations are suffering these days from an outbreak of poor diplomacy. Not necessarily bad; just poor. Foreign Ministry employees say they are just ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011   Group: Articles   
Shepherd's Hotel Demolished; U.S. Peace Efforts in the Debris
The reclusive funder of Jewish settlers' efforts to “reclaim” East Jerusalem, Irving Moskowitz, began demolition of the Shepherd's Hotel in the occupied Sheikh Jar...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011   Group: Articles   
Declaring Palestine: Revisiting Hope and Failure
When late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat read the Declaration of the Palestinian Independence just over 22 years ago, Palestinians everywhere were enthralled. They he...(Continue)
Date: Monday, January 10, 2011   Group: Articles   
A week of racism in Israel
On a recent Monday, more than 200 Jewish Israelis rallied in Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv under the banner 'Keep Bat Yam Jewish'. The demonstrators, most of whom were religio...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, January 09, 2011   Group: Articles   
WikiLeaks and Gaza
Late last year a Norwegian paper apparently got hold of the trove of U.S. diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks and now is focusing attention on Israeli-Palestinian affairs. T...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, January 08, 2011   Group: Articles   
Activists Accuse Israel Of Cracking Down On Dissent
People file into a small concrete house in the West Bank village of Bilin, kiss cheeks and offer condolences to women in mourning sitting in plastic chairs. Soubhiya Abu R...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2011   Group: Articles   
Tears and gas: a call to mobilise
As 2010 came to a close in the West Bank under the regular, weekly cloud of teargas experienced among the villages bordering Israel's 1967 Green Line, 2011 started with t...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2011   Group: Articles   
Why Israeli hawks beat drums of war
The big news coming out of Wiki-Leaks for 2011 is that Israel was planning a full-scale war in the Middle East, as recently as late 2009. According to a cable from the US Emba...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2011   Group: Articles   
Mixed year for Palestinians
After the strong beginnings of 2009, during the Obama administration’s first days in office, 2010 began on a cautious note for the Palestinian cause. There were some ...(Continue)
Date: Monday, January 03, 2011   Group: Articles   
Petitioning the Israeli High Court for justice
The reality of life in the Gaza Strip is hard to convey. Individuals throughout the world have seen the pictures and the images: shootings and maiming, air strikes and artille...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, January 02, 2011   Group: Articles   
Gaza war victims live in sorrow and silence
Gaza: It has become clear that not even two whole years after the war on Gaza are enough to either heal the pain or reduce the sorrow of those residing in this afflicted strip...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, January 01, 2011   Group: Articles   
Gaza Doctor’s Story: A Painful Legacy Of Occupation
The public pain suffered by Izzeldin Abuelaish, the Gaza doctor who lost three of his daughters and a niece when their house was bombed by the Israel Defense Forces in the clo...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010   Group: Articles   
Persecution of Israeli activists on rise
Jonathan Pollak, one of Israel's most prominent political dissidents, is no stranger to dangerous situations or arrest in the occupied territories. In seven years of joini...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel, the homeland of brutality and cruelty
It's not that much of a surprise that Israel has one of the blackest human rights records in the world. It's not expected of the dogmatic regime which relentlessly kills innoc...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010   Group: Articles   
After two years, war looming in Gaza
Two years have passed since Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, and the people are still bleeding. Its homes have not been reconstructed yet, while young and old continue to hear ...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010   Group: Articles   
WikiLeaks is not shielding Israel
I've been reading columns by pro-Arab commentators pointing a finger at the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks for not publishing US diplomatic cables that could embarrass Isra...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010   Group: Articles   
Shin Bet tortures prisoners, denies access to lawyers
As many as 90 percent of Palestinian prisoners being interrogated by the Shin Bet security service are prevented from consulting with an attorney, even though civilian and mil...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010   Group: Articles   
Another Gaza war?
On Thursday, as I hurried into Gaza, that was the question everyone was asking – from news editors in Doha, to the guy who carries luggage through the Erez terminal, to ...(Continue)
Date: Monday, December 27, 2010   Group: Articles   
Ongoing efforts to stop the israeli judaization
The Arab Economic and Social Council affirmed at the conclusion of its extraordinary session on Wednesday the importance of continuing to support the resilience of Jerusalem i...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010   Group: Articles   
US should recognize Palestine
The United States could energize the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations - presently on hold - by recognizing Palestine formally as a state and establishing full diplomatic relat...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010   Group: Articles   
The Palestinian 'legitimacy war'
There has long been advocacy of the idea that judges in national courts could help strengthen the implementation of global norms by extending the reach of national law, especi...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010   Group: Articles   
The facts of Israeli peace efforts
In what is at least his 27th anti-Israel letter in the past six years, Ray Gordon ("U.S. should cut Israel off," December 17) erroneously charges: • "Israel doesn't w...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, December 23, 2010   Group: Articles   
Did WikiLeaks reach a secret deal with Israel?
The current deluge of WikiLeaks' pirated US diplomatic cables has been a triumph for press freedom and the democratic ideal of open and accountable government, but has mostly ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010   Group: Articles   
Insisting on humanity
When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, featuring the work of ...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010   Group: Articles   
Nazi Crimes as Ideological Cover for Israeli Crimes
Last week, Canada’s House of Commons unanimously passed a private member’s bill to establish a national Holocaust monument. While it is a good thing to commemorate...(Continue)
Date: Monday, December 20, 2010   Group: Articles   
Arab states preparing UN resolution against Israeli settlements
Arab states and the Palestinian Authority are drafting a statement they plan to submit to the U.N. Security Council in the form of a resolution denouncing Israeli construction...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, December 19, 2010   Group: Articles   
Nuclear bombs and the Israeli elephant
For the past four decades, there has been an elephant in the room whenever experts and government officials met to discuss nuclear weapons. The elephant is Israel’s size...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, December 18, 2010   Group: Articles   
US has no power to rein in Israel
At one point in 2003, then US president George W. Bush asked Condoleezza Rice what the single most difficult obstacle was to peace in the Middle East. Without much thought, th...(Continue)
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010   Group: Articles   
Netanyahu's coalition is crumbling
Eighteen months after it was cobbled together with old rope and rusted bolts, the unholy coalition alliance between ultra-Orthodox politicians and their secular and Russian pa...(Continue)
Date: Monday, December 13, 2010   Group: Articles   
Funding illegal Israeli settlements? Priceless.
Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international law. ...(Continue)
Date: Monday, December 13, 2010   Group: Articles   
Is the Vatican willing to give legitimacy to Jewish Nazism?
I understand that the term "Jewish Nazism" is harsh, shocking and might well be provocative and offensive to many, especially those adhering to the Jewish faith. I have nothin...(Continue)
Date: Sunday, December 12, 2010   Group: Articles   
Turkey's rise puts Israel on edge
For almost two years now, since the Israeli assault on Gaza in December 2008, Turkey's new regional orientations have been subject to intense debate in Israel's academic and m...(Continue)
Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010   Group: Articles   
Part of the homeland, not the state
Accusations that Hamas is marketing fundamentalism and extremism in Gaza are false. There is no "Talibanization" of Gaza. Such a claim is based on Israeli propaganda and the d...(Continue)
Date: Thursday, December 09, 2010   Group: Articles   
Defeat Zionism to end Palestinian suffering
On Monday, November 29, the world held commemorations dedicated to showing solidarity with the people of Palestine that the United Nations calls Palestine Solidarity Day. ...(Continue)
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel and the U.S: A lopsided relationship
The widely reported deal negotiated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — Israel committing itself to a nonrenewab...(Continue)
Date: Monday, December 06, 2010   Group: Articles   
Is the Mossad Targeting Iran's Nuclear Scientists?
The Iranian nuclear expert assassinated in Tehran on Monday was the top scientist and senior manager of Iran's nuclear effort. Majid Shahriari was killed when an explosive cha... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 2010   Group: Articles   
America’s latest bribe to Israel
The secret talks between US and Israeli officials, aiming at convincing the Israelis to change their position regarding the settlement freeze, started to smell more and more l... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010   Group: Articles   
Making peace impossible
In a move primarily aimed at making it harder to cede occupied Arab land as part of any peace agreement with Syria or the Palestinians, the Israeli Knesset this week approved ... (Continue)
Date: Friday, November 26, 2010   Group: Articles   
Let Israel keep its freeze
At the beginning of his term, Barack Obama became the first US president to call for a halt in Jewish settlement construction in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories a... (Continue)
Date: Thursday, November 25, 2010   Group: Articles   
Boycott: Put more pressure on Israel to change
As Israel increasingly ignores our government's objections to the expansion of settlements, its primary concern is with placating its own right-wing parliamentary coalition. A... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2010   Group: Articles   
U.S. taxpayers are paying for Israel's West Bank occupation
Travelers along the "original" West Bank roads, the ones enabling drivers to bypass Palestinian villages, can see signs declaring "USAID from the American People." (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010   Group: Articles   
United States to reward Israel for its bad behavior!
It was only a little over a year and a half ago that the Obama administration demanded a freeze on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, including even the "natural... (Continue)
Date: Monday, November 22, 2010   Group: Articles   
IPAC: Fighting for survival
The latest Aipac (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) scandal has not found its way into the mainstream media, although the Jewish media has done a great job in highligh... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, November 21, 2010   Group: Articles   
A coming war with Israel?
Listening to the statements of Israeli military and government officials, the conclusion that war is immanent is difficult to escape. (Continue)
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010   Group: Articles   
Racism toward African asylum seekers on the rise in Israel
Racism toward African asylum seekers, fueled by politicians and Jewish religious leaders, is reaching new levels in Israel. In several cities Rabbis are urging Jews not to ren... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010   Group: Articles   
A 90-Day Bet on Mideast Talks
The pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to push for a new, one-time-only freeze of 90 days on settlement construction in the West Bank re... (Continue)
Date: Monday, November 15, 2010   Group: Articles   
Allegations of racism and questions about an Israeli town's character
In the winding stone alleys of this Galilee hill town, a centuries-old center of Jewish mysticism, a campaign is underway. (Continue)
Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010   Group: Articles   
Why is Obama arming Israel’s enemies?
For someone who insists his administration is a friend of Israel, Barack Obama sure has a funny way of showing it. Last month, in a move that raised plenty of eyebro... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010   Group: Articles   
The Oslo virus and the struggle for Bantustans
In 'The Music of the Violin,' a short story by South African writer Njabulo Ndebele, one of the characters comments on the 'concessions' made by the apartheid regime to the in... (Continue)
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israeli Nazism, not anti-Semitism, is the real issue
Israel's fanatical supporters insist on behaving and acting like mad dogs by disregarding any consideration for honesty, rectitude and moral consistency. (Continue)
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010   Group: Articles   
Behind an Israeli Strike in Gaza, Help from Egypt
The Nov. 3 assassination of Mohammad Namnam looked pretty much exactly like the fiery deaths of a lot of other Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip over the years. (Continue)
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israeli building plans test Obama’s clout
Jerusalem’s municipal government upped the political ante this week with the announcement it was issuing warnings to several Palestinian families in the Arab district of... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010   Group: Articles   
Dimona, the Middle East's ticking time bomb
David Ben-Gurion, the founder and first prime minister of the Israeli regime in 1954, presented to his Cabinet a plan called the Strategic Defense Plan which was then approved... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israeli Policies Face Jewish Critics
Acre by acre, successive Israeli governments have used settlement construction to colonize what is left of Palestinian land. Meanwhile, a growing chorus of Jewish critics is f... (Continue)
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010   Group: Articles   
Hamas seeks to ease Gaza’s reliance on Israel
In a new greenhouse, large enough to contain two football pitches, the Islamist Hamas group is opening a new front in the battle for control of the Gaza Strip. (Continue)
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel confronts flagging interest in military service
Since Israel's founding, the military here has served not just as a defender against outside threats, but as the glue that brings together a patchwork nation of immigrants. ... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, November 07, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel is right to be concerned
We can learn much from the Israeli government’s decision this week to suspend a special strategic dialog with the United Kingdom because of concerns that Israeli officia... (Continue)
Date: Saturday, November 06, 2010   Group: Articles   
Will U.S. Election Results Affect Israel Policy?
It wouldn’t be a huge leap to assume that Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish prime minister of Israel, is rejoicing at the large Republican gains in the midterm elections t... (Continue)
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010   Group: Articles   
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel hit boiling point
Relations between Israel's Jewish majority and its Arab minority have never been warm, but they appear to have hit a new low that has activists on both sides worried the troub... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel's Nuclear Heads Are Trained at Muslims
The first fact is that the hundreds of nuclear heads and bombs which Israel possesses or is widely assumed to possess are not trained toward Zimbabwe or Gabon or Haiti, but at... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010   Group: Articles   
Obama's message to Israel: Freeze settlements or get rid of Dimona
Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz will retire from his post as deputy chief of staff at the end of the month and begin his demobilization leave. It is hard to believe he will be offered a... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel's choice: Freeze or isolation
The decision whether or not to continue the freeze on settlement construction is not a momentary, tactical decision. It is a strategic decision with implications for the State... (Continue)
Date: Monday, November 01, 2010   Group: Articles   
The settlement impasse
It comes as little surprise that Palestinian-Israeli negotiations are at an impasse. The lesson after nearly two decades of bilateral negotiations is that direct talks alone a... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, October 31, 2010   Group: Articles   
U.S. Can Put the Squeeze on Israel
Israel can do whatever it damn pleases, and the Obama administration will never say no -- or so the common wisdom goes. But it isn’t so. Obama has backed down far too of... (Continue)
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010   Group: Articles   
What does Netanyahu's new plan imply?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to launch a new plan to restart negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), according to reports by t... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israeli flotilla probe 'a sham'
For the past few days I've had the delightful task of hanging around the Yitzhak Rabin Guest House in West Jerusalem. I was covering the latest round of questioning by (Israel... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010   Group: Articles   
Pentagon in charge of aid to Israel?
In the days leading up to the United States Congress mid-term elections, senior Republicans are contemplating transferring the annual foreign aid responsibilities, provided th... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010   Group: Articles   
The violence debate
An American activist once gave me a book she wrote detailing her experiences in Palestine. The largely visual volume documented her journey of the occupied West Bank, rife wit... (Continue)
Date: Monday, October 25, 2010   Group: Articles   
Legitimizing occupation
For Palestinians, this was a startling and misguided decision, coming from such a well-respected multilateral player. First, holding this conference in illegally-annexed and I... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010   Group: Articles   
What led to Israel bombing house full of civilians during Gaza war?
A Military Police investigation into an air strike that killed 21 Palestinian civilians during Operation Cast Lead, according to a recent Haaretz report, indicates senior air ... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010   Group: Articles   
Smothered by settlements
Negotiations between two unequal parties cannot succeed. Success in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations requires a reasonable balance of power, clear terms of reference and abste... (Continue)
Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010   Group: Articles   
Ambiguity over Israel’s nuclear program
While Israel is widely regarded as the world’s sixth nuclear power, with scores or possibly hundreds of atomic bombs, it has never acknowledged possessing nuclear weapon... (Continue)
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel rebuked at United Nations
Israel’s approval last week of 238 new Jewish housing units in Arab East Jerusalem provoked widespread condemnation in a United Nations Security Council session Monday f... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010   Group: Articles   
Stuxnet mystery Israel, bluff, or double bluff?
Certainly, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported last week that Israel wasn't admitting to having created the worm. But the paper pointed out that the country has the cap... (Continue)
Date: Monday, October 18, 2010   Group: Articles   
Cracks widen in Netanyahu's coalition
Israel's coalition government, led by Binyamin Netanyahu, appears to be in danger of fracturing over the gridlocked peace process and a controversial "loyalty law". (Continue)
Date: Sunday, October 17, 2010   Group: Articles   
Danger of Israel's racist demands
Without any reason, the Israeli government has created a totally artificial problem for all future persons wishing to get citizenship: they will have to pledge allegiance to I... (Continue)
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010   Group: Articles   
Many Israeli Jews favor “anti-democratic” values
A survey released Friday by the Dahaf polling agency reveal that many Israeli Jews favor anti-democratic values, with 36% in favor of revoking the Palestinian minority's right... (Continue)
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel woos Greece after rift with Turkey
Earlier this week the Israeli Air Force completed a series of exercises with its Greek counterpart - a sign of the growing links between the two countries. (Continue)
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010   Group: Articles   
ISRAEL: Innovation lacking in universities
Israel may have transformed itself over the past decade into one of the world's vibrant economies, but innovation training is nonetheless sorely lacking in the nation's univer... (Continue)
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010   Group: Articles   
Have American Jews lost faith in Obama?
US president's tough stands regarding Israel seems to be taking its toll as US Jews' support in him falters, contributions to Democratic Party drop 65%. (Continue)
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel must be held accountable internationally
A good technique when attempting to reach a negotiated consensus is to bring certain offers to the table that will surely be rejected. (Continue)
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010   Group: Articles   
Opinion: Israel should respect rights of migrant workers
The Israeli Interior Ministry says it is about to deport between 1,000 and 1,200 children of foreign worker (Continue)
Date: Sunday, October 10, 2010   Group: Articles   
American Public Opinion and the Special Relationship With Israel
There is no question that the United States has a relationship with Israel that has no parallel in modern history. (Continue)
Date: Monday, October 04, 2010   Group: Articles   
Zionist Dialectics: Past and Future
This study has employed a dialectical framework for analyzing the destabilizing logic of Zionism. We have examined this logic as it has unfolded through time, driven by the vi... (Continue)
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israelis risk jail to smuggle Palestinians
Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life ou... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel tells schools not to teach nakba
Government officials warned Israeli teachers last week not to cooperate with a civic group that seeks to educate Israelis about how the Palestinians view the loss of their hom... (Continue)
Date: Sunday, August 22, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel should not keep its history behind lock and key
History may be written by the victors, as Winston Churchill is said to have observed, but the opening up of archives can threaten a nation every bit as much as the unearthing ... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010   Group: Articles   
The US Arms Bonanza in the Middle East
Two of the United States’ closest allies in the Middle East, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are on the brink of signing large arms deals with the US in a move designed to ratc... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010   Group: Articles   
‘Major George’ and Israel’s Abu Ghraib
A police officer known as “Major George” who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been a... (Continue)
Date: Monday, August 09, 2010   Group: Articles   
Bedouin village torn down for second time
Israeli security forces destroyed a Bedouin village this week for the second time in a matter of days, leaving 300 inhabitants homeless again after they and dozens of Jewish a... (Continue)
Date: Friday, August 06, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel retreats on flotilla agreement
Israel quickly reined back expectations yesterday over its agreement to co-operate with a UN investigation into the Israeli army’s lethal raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotil... (Continue)
Date: Wednesday, August 04, 2010   Group: Articles   
Israel's false claim
Both opponents and supporters of Israel's attacks on Gaza fail to see how deep its breach of international law and norms really runs (Continue)
Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009   Group: Articles   
The Arab 'Right of Return' to Israel
A media and propaganda campaign has been under way since the Annapolis "peace" conference to legitimate the longstanding demands made on behalf of the Palestinian "Arab refuge... (Continue)
Date: Tuesday, January 08, 2008   Group: Articles